Service Updates & Upcoming Public Holidays – w/c 20th April

Here you will find the latest global service updates and a list of upcoming worldwide public holidays. This is updated throughout the week with latest information available.

Service Updates

GENERAL: Air France has announced warned of ‘severe disruption’ to its flight schedule, with strike action scheduled for April 16th-18th and April 29th-May 2nd. Whilst we will endeavour to utilise our other airlines to move mail, reduced capacity is to be expected on alternative flights so delays may occur.

Canada & USA – A number of factors have resulted in delays to mail processing at JFK, New York, these are: A change of Ground Handling Services for one of the airlines has caused a build up of mail. Continuing severe weather conditions along with a significant increase in mail volumes from China ahead of the Chinese New Year, has resulted in delays of at least 24 hours.

UPDATE: The weather surrounding JFK, New York, has not improved but USPS is continuing to work on resolving remaining mail handover issues with the new ground-handling company.
Throughout the period, the JFK mail hub has been accepting and processing all the mail it receives and USPS continues to deliver mail to all areas despite the bad weather impacting on normal services. USPS continue to work on processing the inbound mail volumes as quickly as possible. . Ongoing (issue start date: 02/02/15 – updated 23/03/15)

Belgium – A public sector union in Belgium have announced a national strike for Wednesday 22 April. It is expected that during the strike period, there will be delays to mail sorting, transportation and mail delivery throughout the country (Ongoing (issue start date: 22/04/15)

China – High volumes of mail arriving in Shanghai and Guangzhou are resulting in backlogs and capacity issues for China Post. Delays to mail services are likely. Ongoing (issue start date: 03/11/14)

Chile – Due to flooding in northern Chile, mail services will be delayed in the following areas for the next few days: Antofagasta, Tocopilla, Copiapó, Caldera, Tierra Amarilla, Chañaral, Diego de Almagro, Vallenar, Alto del Carmen, Freirina and Huasco.Ongoing (issue start date: 25/03/15)

Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania – Mail despatches to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are currently experiencing minor delays due to airline availability issues. As a result we anticipate a delay to mail services of an extra day due to the reduced flight availability. Ongoing (issue start date: 19/02/15)